Barry pointed this out to me. And I did know this. My reply to him is below. 
Maybe I should look at a trial version of that SAS equivalent out of the UK.

  Thanks Barry,
   Except I do have a fair sized investment in my current batch MXG jobs. And, 
as I've mentioned before, we will be shutdown within the year. For me, the path 
to ASCII is not likely.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
> Behalf Of Edward Finnell
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 12:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Syncsort to DFSORT - my time has come.
> 
> SAS and MXG have PC versions.
> 
> So, I lose MXG and reasonable ability to process SMF anyway.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gibney, Dave <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Wed, Oct 28, 2020 11:47 am
> Subject: Re: Syncsort to DFSORT - my time has come.
> 
> If we had longer to exist, I might. But, we haven't been collecting Syncsort
> SMF, so until I see the need...
> And my SAS license expires soon also. So, I lose MXG and reasonable ability
> to process SMF anyway.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On
> > Behalf Of Martin Packer
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2020 1:32 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: Syncsort to DFSORT - my time has come.
> >
> >
> > FWIW I would go with SMF=FULL - unless you have an exceptionally large
> > number of sorts - or tight SMF space restrictions.
> >
> > There’s gold in them there records. :-)
> >
> > Cheers, Martin
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > > On 27 Oct 2020, at 21:13, Frank Swarbrick
> <[email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Here is our ICEPRM00, if you are interested.
> > >
> > > JCL
> > >  DYNALOC=(SYSDA,12)
> > >  DYNAUTO=YES
> > >  MSGDDN=SYSOUT
> > >  PARMDDN=DFSPARM
> > >  SMF=NO
> > > INV
> > >  DYNALOC=(SYSDA,12)
> > >  DYNAUTO=IGNWKDD
> > >  ERET=ABEND
> > >  MSGDDN=SORTMSG
> > >  PARMDDN=SORTPARM
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > > TSO
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > > TSOINV
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > > TD1
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > > TD2
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > > TD3
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > > TD4
> > >  SMF=SHORT
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
> on
> > behalf
> > of R.S. <[email protected]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:26 AM
> > > To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> > > Subject: Re: Syncsort to DFSORT - my time has come.
> > >
> > > W dniu 27.10.2020 o 18:16, Gibney, Dave pisze:
> > >>    A fairly quick question. Are there sample ICEPRMxx members
> provided
> > by IBM for tailoring DFSORT? I don't find any in SICESAMP.
> > >> Yesterday, in my sandbox, I IPL'd with SICELPA, SORTLPA, SICELINK,
> > SORTLIB ahead of the SYNCSORT libraries and not ICEPRMxx. SHOWZOS
> > shows
> > DFSORT as resident sort program. All seems well. I don't keep this
> > concatenation, it was just easier for fall back considerations.
> > >
> > > If you want some sample I can send it.
> > > However there is no black magic there.
> > > IMHO it is fundamental to define your needs, because the member is for
> > > defaults which can be easily overtyped by parameters in the job.
> > >
> > > Here you are:
> > >
> > >
> >
> **********************************************************
> > *********
> > > ** History of changes:
> > > ** 05-10-2019 R.SKORUPKA first customization
> > > ** dd-mm-yyyy user description...
> > > **
> > >
> >
> **********************************************************
> > **********
> > > *
> > > * JCL (ICEAM1)
> > > JCL
> > > DYNALOC=(3390,10)
> > > *
> > > * INV (ICEAM2)
> > > INV
> > > DYNALOC=(3390,10)
> > >
> > >
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